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This is awesome. A simple Theremin operating on 2 timers. I love it. Having built some more advanced Theremins it's nice to see an easy, simple design like this. Honestly people this is simple electronics and you can put it together in less than 30min. In fact with little effort you can just output the output of the Theremin to a stereo system line in and give the neighbors some interesting sounds. Many thanks Dave.

I'd like to know more about how this material responds to zero voltage signals. Basically if the power goes off, does this alter the memory (are we looking at a memory storage technology here like say an I- RAM card whereby you must have power in order for the device to retain it's memory). The way it's explained sounds like high current causes it to store some data, low current will cause it to loose it's data, but what about zero voltage? No power at all? If the material will not change unless an external current is applied to the material in some controlled way then it sounds magnificient. How affected by electrostatic power it would be would be most important as in most electronics but what excites me about this technology is the potential to completely move away from 'magnetic storage' devices. So when the Earths magnetic poles reverse there will not be dire consequences (not that this hugely blown out of proportion phenomena looks set to be a problem any time soon). If retention of data could potentially last a lifetime unless acted upon by a changing current we are looking at a serious data storage upgrade here.